Tag: Self-made Tools

Necklace Bust

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If you have necklaces you can always do with something to hang them up, as e.g. the mini dress-form jewelry stand.
That’s something you can use the wonderful bust for.
But it is also something very special if you want to sell jewelry.

Incidentally I think that you can craft it a little smaller if you need a gift wrap or sales wrapping for your necklace.
If the bust is made as greeting card the necklace can directly be send with it!?

If you make such a bust I’d really appreciate a comment with a link (as I’m glad about every comment ;-))


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How to Make a Necklace Bust

Here at unikatissima:
Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

Make Your Own Font

fontcapture Make Your Own Font

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Sometimes it would be great, if you could enter your own hand writing by keyboard, e.g. when creating greeting cards.
You have the chance now: you print a form, enter the appropriate letters, scan the sheet and upload it at fontcapture.
Then you should get back your handwriting as font.
I didn’t let make it yet because my handwriting is so botched at the moment that I don’t want to get it ;-))

As a matter of principle you should be able to ‘put a lot on the keyboard’, even little sketches.
I really have to try it on occasion!


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Create a font from your own handwriting

Plastic Funnel

instructables Plastic Funnel

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Sometimes you need a big funnel – why not cutting the top of a plastic bottle and use this?
I find this instruction great again: with little means reaching something practical and additionally recycling :)

By the way you can use those funnels, too, when pouring little beads from one container to the other, I don’t like to use my kitchen funnels for this.

Incidentally you can use up the rest of your bottle, too ;-)


Links:
Plastic Funnel (Never buy plastic funnels again!)

Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’

Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

Craft Chi Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

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I’ve seen several mini dress-form jewelry stands already but I find an instruction on how to make it yourself muuuch better ;-)

I really have to take a look for appropriate dolls at my next junk market visit ;-)


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Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

 

Self-made Hairpin Lace Loom

unikatissima DIY Hairpin Lace Loom

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I found two tutorials on how to make a hairpin lace loom (see links below) and because I hadn’t the appropriate material at hand (in fact that’s strange seeing all the stuff I have lying here about ;-)) I did it a little different:
I took two toilet paper tubes, cut them lengthwise, rolled them up strongly and taped them all around.
Then I pricked two metal kebeb skewers through those thick cardboard rolls: my hairpin lace loom was done!
;-)

At last I could give hairpin lace a try and it – worked.

 

unikatissima DIY Hairpin Lace Loom
That is to say that I haven’t read the hairpin lace instruction at stichdiva thoroughly(!) and therefore it didn’t work in the beginning.
They write ‘Insert hook under thread of topmost loop’, but for me it isn’t the topmost thread (blue arrow) but the foremost thread (red arrow).
After I took the foremost thread everything worked fine.

At the moment I don’t have the time for it but in future I will play around with hairpin lace :)


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Instructions for self-made hairpin lace looms:
Instruction at ehow – from metal
there you can find further down (Resources) links to hair pin lace tutorials
Instruction at Little Projects – from bamboo skewers and hot glue sticks
via: DIY Hairpin Lace Loom: the link isn’t available no more.

Tutorial for base hairpin lace at stitchdiva

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Staple Together Little Notebooks

unikatissima Staple Together Little Notebooks

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Another very dear friend sent me the link to the inventive technique on how to staple together little notebooks.

I tried it: It works great! And fast! And neat!
;-)

At any rate it is a really great idea that I’m glad to spread.

Playing cards could well serve as cover here ;-)


Links:
Staple together little notebooks (Tell me if you’ve seen this one before.)

Here at unikatissima:
Accordion-Style Playing Card Notebooks
more entries with the tag ‘books’

Seed Tapes

instructables Seed Tapes

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As said before I’m a city kid and don’t know anything about plants, but I found those seed tapes interesting anyhow: It seems that you only have to put them in the soil and then something happens.
Or something like that ;-))

I’d like to hear if you’ve made your own experiences!


Links:
Make Your Own Seed Tapes

Here at unikatissima:
Seed Starters
Garden Decorations
Jewelry for the Garden